Smoking pipe with an active smoke cooling chamber

ABSTRACT

Smoking pipe with an active smoke cooling chamber. A smoking pipe with a material bowl used for the burning of smoking materials, multiple chambers that are filled with smoke as the user inhales smoke into pipe using a mouthpiece, a chamber equipped with an thermoelectric heat exchanger, a control unit to regulate temperatures within the heat exchange chamber and a system to receive and provide data to user. The cooling chamber uses thermoelectric heat exchangers to change the temperature within its walls, the lowering of the temperature within the chamber cools the smoke as it passes through. The cooling chamber connects to a mouthpiece through an aft passage, the user inhales smoke which is now at a reduced temperature using a mouthpiece.

CROSS REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims priority to an earlier filed provisional application having Ser. No. 62/914,991, and hereby incorporates subject matter of the provisional application in its entirety.

FIELD OF INVENTION

This invention relates to smoking appliances and more particularly to smoking appliances that regulate smoke temperature.

BACKGROUND

Mankind has been smoking tobacco and other organic materials using pipes of varying shapes and sizes for a very long time. A basic pipe consists of a bowl with a material chamber, the chamber where the tobacco or other material is burned, a bit or mouthpiece for a user to inhale, and air passage that connect them all together. Smoking from pipes requires high heat to burn material, this causes the generated smoke to be high in temperature which causes users to feel an undesirable burning sensation when inhaling the smoke generated using said pipe. Current pipes smokers who want a cooler smoother smoke are thus required to use methods that are very limited in scope for cooling, and these methods reduces the ingredients within the smoke.

Water pipes use water in a chamber within the pipe. The smoke from the material chamber passes through an air passage, into a chamber with water, where the smoke comes in contact with the water, is cooled and filtered and then passed onto the user. In an effort to further reduce the burning sensation, some smokers using waterpipes will add ice to the water in the water pipe. By adding ice, the water temperature is further reduced, thus the smoke can be cooled to a lower temperature. However, as the heat is exchange within the water pipe the temperature of the water and ice rising causes the water to overflow out of the pipe. To prevent overflow and accommodate the melting ice, waterpipes have grown larger and larger in size making their use cumbersome and prohibitive at times.

Using pipes with these traditional methods of filtering and cooling results in flavors and other ingredients being removed partially or completely, while offering minimal, if any reduction to the temperature of the smoke. While these types of pipes are known, the embodiments contained herein provide a method, features and provide advantages untaught by prior art, as will be clear to one of ordinary knowledge in the subject.

SUMMARY

It is accordingly an object of the present invention to provide a smoking pipe which incorporates a cooling means and, in particular, a smoking pipe with an active cooling method for cooling smoke. To that end, traditional pipes that do any cooling use filtering mediums to cool smoke. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a bowl with burning material is placed within a bowl holder in the pipe, passage from bowl holder to a chamber that functions as a plenum. Plenum chamber is then connected to cooling chamber that is equipped with a thermoelectric cooling assembly. Smoke within the cooling chamber is cooled as it passes through the chamber and then passes out to a mouthpiece.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Various embodiments of the invention are disclosed in the following detailed description and accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an exploded perspective example embodiment a side cross-sectional diagram view of a pipe FIG. 1 with a 100 material bowl for the burning of smoking material, 105 smoke passage from the material bowl to the bowl holder, 110 insert for material bowl, 115 material bowl holder with 120 cleaning access, 125 smoke passage from material bowl holder to 145 pipe body. 130 Insert in body for material bowl holder, 132 smoke passage from insert for material bowl holder to 150 smoke holding chamber, 180 body with a smoke passage 140 connecting smoke holding chamber to cooling chamber 135. 160 Thermoelectric module for cooling heat exchanger 162 inserted into smoke cooling chamber 135. 155 Heat exchanger for moving heat from thermoelectric module. 170 passage from cooling chamber to 175 insert for a user mouthpiece 195. 185 user control and feedback panel, 190 exit chamber for user mouthpiece.

FIG. 2 Is a cut away view of a smoke pipe with an active smoke cooling chamber, 200 one embodiment of the present invention, 205 an insert for a material bowl holder, 210 is a passage from the material bowl holder insert to 215 a chamber that functions as a plenum chamber. 220 a passage connecting plenum chamber to 235 a Chamber with a 230 Thermoelectric cooling assembly. 225 Unit for removing heat from Thermoelectric cooling assembly. 240 passage from chamber with a Thermoelectric cooling assembly to a 245 user mouthpiece insert

FIG. 3 A perspective view of the inside of a smoke cooling chamber of a Smoking pipe with an active smoke cooling chamber wherein 305 is where smoke enters the cooling chamber, 310 is a thermal regulated base, 330 pins attached to a thermally regulated base, 335 Guide to permit smoke to flow in a set pattern, 320 Arrow indicating smoke flow, 300 smoke exit from cooling chamber.

FIG. 4 Illustrates a side cross-sectional view of the current invention wherein the pipe with an active smoke cooling chamber FIG. 4 may be combined with another pipe, such as a water pipe. In this embodiment, a bowl for burning material if inserted in slot 400, a smoke passage 405 connects to a plenum chamber 410, the plenum chambers connect to a cooling chamber 440, the cooling chamber is equipped with a thermoelectric cooling assembly 435, the water pipe water chamber 430, a passage from the cooling chamber 412 to a user mouthpiece passage 420. 

1. A smoke pipe with active smoke cooling comprising: A bowl for holding and burning material, Attachment unit for holding material burning bowl, Chamber to function as a Plenum chamber, Chamber with thermal electric heat exchanging element, Connection for a user mouthpiece, Management and user interface system.
 2. A smoke pipe with Active Smoke Cooling in accordance with claim 1 wherein: The attachment unit with a receiving section for a material bowl, a passage for smoke to pass from the material bowl through the attachment unit and into other chamber within the pipe, whereas access for cleaning is provided via the attachment unit passage using the smoke passage.
 3. A smoke pipe with Active Smoke Cooling as in claim 2 further comprising: The body of the pipe containing chambers that function as plenum, are filled with smoke when the user inhales from the mouthpiece, smoke is stored in the chamber and moved along by the actions created by the user.
 4. A smoke pipe with Active Smoke Cooling as in claim 3 further comprising: A chamber within the pipe equipped with a thermal electric heat exchanger used to control the temperature within a chamber filled with smoke, Smoke within the thermoelectric controlled chamber are guided along within the chamber in a guided pattern to maximize the smoke contact with the cooled elements within the walls of the cooling chamber.
 5. A smoke pipe with Active Smoke Cooling as in claim 4 further comprising: A feedback and control system for providing pipe status to user and processing user input to change variables within the pipe to change or monitor active cooling chamber temperature properties.
 6. A smoke pipe with Active Smoke Cooling as in claim 5 further comprising: A user mouthpiece that is used to inhale smoke from within the cooling chamber with opening that can be used to add various other mouthpiece design and hoses based on user smoking style and preference. 